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Do you really use SSH with X11 forwarding? The times I've tried it have been a pain. Xrdp was simpler.
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Hmmm.... The National Geographic coffee table book I've currently browsing through? The almost full page photographs are truly an object of beauty but I don't think many tablets come with 2x3 21.2 inch diagonal screens (the pages are 30x45 cm).
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It seems to me that the use case of a large DX-sized screen is for pdf. Amazon's book business is with paperback-sized books. So it doesn't make business sense for them to make an A2-sized reader.
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I would agree primarily because a lot of people use increasingly larger fonts as their eyesight worsens and larger screen makes more comfortable reading. I can tell you a 10.1 tablet is rather heavy to read from, so I can't imagine much bigger than the Oasis would be workable.
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03-03-2019, 09:21 PM | #29 |
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Until I started reading ebooks I always read paperbacks. A 6" ereader gives a page the size of a paperback, which to me is plenty large enough.
In my retirement home there are a number of people who have to read with larger fonts. I use either size 4 or 5 on my Kindle. Either one is fine for me. Some of my neighbors use up to size 8. I don't think any use larger fonts than that. These people range in age from about 62 to about 85. I'm 78. All of us have reduced vision but 6" ereaders are big enough. I did have a neighbor who wanted a larger device and he ended up getting a Kobo HD. I think that's 6.8" if I remember right. He was happy with that but he'd been reading on a 6" Kindle for years. He wanted the larger one when he found out they exist. Barry |
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Perhaps if the eBookReader has bothered to notice that while there are quite a few eInk ereaders with screens larger than 8", the sales of them would qualify as a rounding error in Amazon's Kindle sales, I would be more impressed by their reporting.
The only two people I know who purchased larger format eInk ereaders have continued to use a smaller device for most of their ereading. Such things as portability and front lights make them more usable as day to day ereaders compared to their Onyx Boox Note and Remarkable devices. Though both are happy with their larger device for the purposes they were purchased for, the number of people willing to spend the money to own both sizes of ereader is not going to a very large number (IMNSHO). Yes, Amazon shows the Remarkable as #14 on their Best Sellers in eBook Readers list. OTOH, they show The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 as #20 on bestselling ereaders. This doesn't give me much confidence in the usefulness of that page. |
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